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October 25th, 2007 at 7:46 am
The site is great but navigation needs work. Keep it up.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
So where are my favorite agents provocateur, Woody and GM?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Woody has temporarily withdrawn. You can find him at rosedog’s place, or likely, GM’s place. GM tends to be selective of his targets. I’m assuming GM is leaving comments on the fires in CA to people who live in CA.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
I have some good friends who are food safety activists, and everytime I read the phrase “GM” I think of genetically modified.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
GM wouldn’t do that, but it’s a funny thought.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
I get stuck on General Motors …
October 25th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
They still exist?
- Speaking of America’s car companies…Neil Young’s new album which came out this week – Chrome Dreams II (with as expected, much in the way of car metaphors and Neil’s bemoanment of the death of the American car industry) is amazing, his best since the mid 90s. Ordinary People is the best song about the genuine – not imagined American proletariat “patch of ground people” “Lee Iacocca people”- complete with revolutionary implications – of all time.
October 25th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
jcummings, I read a review that cited that line–”Lee Iacocca people”–and my first thought was that ol’ Neil must have dusted off some unfinished tracks from 1986. Lee Iacocca? Really? I’m surprised he didn’t throw in references to Reagan, jellybeans, and Ferdinand Marcos.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Yes. It is an unreleased song from 1987, called by many critics his Guernica, only performed live. Its probably the only dated reference in the song, which is 18 verses and 18 minutes long – not a guitar solo epic but like Dylan’s Desolation Row, ending with revolutionary declarations on behalf of the people, be they “patch of ground” “ordinary” “lee iacocca” “alcoholic” “proletarian” “gambling” “vigilante” “las vegas” etc.
A lesser artist would replace Lee Iaccocca, with perhaps Lou Dobbs, but the point is made more real by using a reference that people of the generation about whom he’s singing (and coming from) broadly represent.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:12 am
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